Songs for Christmas
04 December 2025, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
The German soprano Katharina Ruckgaber makes a welcome return to Oxford for a programme of seasonal delights, including Christmas songs by Schubert, Cornelius, Chaminade and Strauss. With mulled wine and mince pies served at the end, this is a super way to enter the festive spirit and round off a great year of song!
Programme
- Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921)
- Weihnachten
- Alban Berg (1885 - 1935)
- X. Winter from Jugendlieder
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Der Einsame (1825) D800
- Jake Heggie (1961)
- The Road to Bethlehem from On the Road to Christmas
- Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874)
- Die Könige (1856) Op. 8 no.3
- Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
- Noël Op. 43 no.1
- Anon. arr. Britten
- La noël passée
- Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
- Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison (1915) L139
- Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
- Giv mig ej glans
- Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912)
- Noël païen
- Adolph Adam (1803 - 1856)
- Minuit, chrétiens
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
- December: Noël from The Seasons
- Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
- Schlafendes Jesuskind (1888) No.25 from Mörike-Lieder
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
- La Madonna col Bambino
- Robert Stolz (1880 - 1975)
- Christrose
- Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
- Weihnachtsgefühl
